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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:51:26 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
Subject:   Re: Question about rtld-elf. Anyone?.. Anyone? 
Message-ID:  <20030430155126.377792A8A8@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <3EAF621C.E59B1AD5@mindspring.com> 

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Terry Lambert wrote:
>   This is actually used for the *kernel* to map the
> ld.so into the process address space on the processes behalf; it's
> why there's a dlopen() available in static binaries on SVR4.

Not on the SVR4 (pre-solaris) that I used.  The linker didn't generate
the data in static binaries that ld.so needed at runtime.

Cheers,
-Peter
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Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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